GeForce GTX 965M vs GeForce 940M
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 965M |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce 940M |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 965M
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 965M | | GeForce 940M | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM204 () | vs | GM108 (N16S-GT-S) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 398 mm² | vs | 0 mm² |
| Transistors | 5,200 million | vs | unknown |
| Shaders | 1024 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 8 | vs | 3 |
| Core clock | 540 MHz | vs | 1072 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 8 |
| TMUs | 64 | vs | 24 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 965M | | GeForce 940M | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 965M | | GeForce 940M | |
|---|
| TDP | 0 watts | vs | 33 watts |
| Release Date | 9 Jan 2015 | vs | 13 Mar 2015 |
GeForce GTX 965M
17.28 GP/s
GeForce 940M
8.58 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 965M
34.60 GT/s
GeForce 940M
25.73 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 965M
80.20 GB/s
GeForce 940M
14.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 965M
1105.90 GFLOPs
GeForce 940M
823.30 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better